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Preventing School Rampage Violence Through Student Bystander Intervention and Positive School Environments

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This chapter covers the manner in which student threats of rampage violence come to the attention of parents, police, and school authorities in order to be averted and considers the extent to which students have broken through a code of silence which discourages them from informing on their peers. In addition, as many contemporary school violence prevention practices (such as enhanced discipline and increased surveillance) were not found to play a decisive role in preventing these incidents, alternative approaches from restorative justice are suggested to improve school climates, and accordingly, to increase positive bystander behavior on the part of students.

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Madfis, E. (2020). Preventing School Rampage Violence Through Student Bystander Intervention and Positive School Environments. In: How to Stop School Rampage Killing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37181-4_4

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